I don’t know if you have ever felt it: the feeling of informationoverload. A sudden panic attack, not the freaky big one, but the small “crap! what to do now?”-feeling. You suddenly notice that you are reading on something else than you intended and wanting to learn/to that in addition to the original intent. You can’t seem to decide what to prioritize and end up trying to do/read/learn it all at once. And at one point you can’t bear it anymore. The only thing you can do is to put it all away and do something completely different.
I had that feeling today. I tried to read learn the Zend PHP framework while plan the application to use it in AND read/learn the Gdata api while planning a another application to use the gdata api in and all of these things simultaneously. It did not work very well. Next time I need do just one of these and complete it before and move on to the next thing.
I wrote a poem about it here. http://www.ekkodill.com/2009/01/informationoverload/